Henry Taylor | |
Birth Name: | Henry Splawn Taylor |
Birth Date: | June 21, 1942 |
Spouse: | Mooshe Taylor |
Birth Place: | Lincoln, Virginia, U.S. |
Education: | University of Virginia (BA) Hollins University (MA) |
Workplaces: | American University Roanoke College University of Utah |
Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1986) |
Discipline: | Creative writing |
Sub Discipline: | Poetry |
Henry Splawn Taylor (born June 21, 1942) is an American poet, academic, and translator. The author of more than 15 books of poems, translation, and nonfiction, he is the recipient of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Taylor was born in Lincoln, Virginia, in rural Loudoun County, where he was raised as a Quaker.[1] He went to high school at George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1965 and a Master of Arts from Hollins University in 1966.[2]
Taylor taught literature and co-directed the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at American University from 1971 to 2003.
Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1986 for his book The Flying Change. His additional honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
Since 2015, he and his wife, fiber artist Mooshe Taylor, live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[3]